6.1

a sonnet is a poem with fourteen lines which originated as a form in europe. typically english poets have written sonnets in the iambic pentameter [which i don't much about, but i do love to day the words]. while there have been many poets who wrote sonnets, shakespeare's sonnets are probably some of the best known. he wrote almost all of them to a specific rhyme scheme too; they follow a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g structure.

i am in no way a big shakespeare fan but here's one of his that i particularly like:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose Worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-William Shakespeare [Sonnet 116]